{"id":1033837,"date":"2026-09-08T07:17:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-08T01:47:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1033837"},"modified":"2026-09-08T07:19:18","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T01:49:18","slug":"tech-companies-look-to-argentinas-windswept-patagonia-to-build-massive-data-centers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/09\/08\/tech-companies-look-to-argentinas-windswept-patagonia-to-build-massive-data-centers\/","title":{"rendered":"Tech companies look to Argentina&#8217;s windswept Patagonia to build massive data centers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BUENOS AIRES: Argentina&#8217;s rugged Patagonia is drawing increasing interest from investors searching for sites for mega data centers who are enticed by the region&#8217;s cool temperatures, renewable energy, shale gas and empty stretches of land. <\/p>\n<p>As tech giants known as hyperscalers race worldwide to \u200bbuild server farms and run into roadblocks amid anti-data-center campaigns, projects in initial stages in Argentina are \u200bdeveloping without much public attention. Since Argentines have yet to be impacted by large data centers, the country lacks a backlash against the server farms as in the U.S., where critics \u200bsay they strain local power grids, harm the environment and increase utility bills.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BUENOS AIRES: Argentina&#8217;s rugged Patagonia is drawing increasing interest from investors searching for sites for mega data centers who are enticed by the region&#8217;s cool temperatures, renewable energy, shale gas and empty stretches of land. As tech giants known as hyperscalers race worldwide to \u200bbuild server farms and run into roadblocks amid anti-data-center campaigns, projects in initial stages in Argentina are \u200bdeveloping without much public attention. Since Argentines have yet to be impacted by large data centers, the country lacks a backlash against the server farms as in the U.S., where critics \u200bsay they strain local power grids, harm the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1033837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1033837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1033837"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1033837\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1033848,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1033837\/revisions\/1033848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1033837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1033837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1033837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}